The Hellbound Heart

Galzu
MemberOvomorphMay 06, 20122226 Views7 RepliesIm starting to get real Pinhead/Cenobite feel about this surviving jockey. In fact, in Clive Barker's original story, The Hellbound Heart, the lead Cenobite was called "The Engineer".
In their earliest incarnations, the Cenobites practice, with a religious devotion, a supernatural form of hedonism, manifested through the expansion of sensation to an extremely painful point of sensory overload, and enduring excruciating pain through incessant tortures that transcend traditional laws of physics.
Their leader is identified only as The Engineer, who in addition to overseeing the Order is also [b]responsible for the transformation of individuals into Cenobites.[/b]
The Cenobites' form of "pleasure," and the realm in which they practice it, is simply so awful that it appears to be Hell to those unable to endure it. In Hellraiser, the lead Cenobite informs Kirsty Cotton that the Cenobites have been identified as both angels and demons by those they have encountered, and that the Cenobites merely see themselves as "explorers." They are completely amoral, their dedication to their lifestyle taking priority over any notions of right or wrong.
Any Thoughts.
Shaw: "Greetings from Earth."
SJ: "We have such sights to show you!"
Shaw "We were so wrong!"